| The Leadership Dojo: Build Your Foundation as an Exemplary Leader Contributor(s): Strozzi-Heckler, Richard (Author), Leider, Richard (Foreword by) |
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ISBN: 1583942017 ISBN-13: 9781583942017 Publisher: Frog in Well OUR PRICE: $22.46 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: September 2007 Annotation: History is filled with accounts of great leaders, but how did they become so? Written for emergent leaders in any endeavor, this new work from renowned consultant Richard Strozzi-Heckler offers a new approach to leadership. The first book of its kind to base business and management strength on integral body awareness, the book presents key principles such as "shugyo, "or self-cultivation, as crucial in developing the individual responsibility, social commitment, and moral and spiritual vision required to lead with authority and efficacy. "The Leadership Dojo "is based on three questions: What does a leader do? What are the character values most essential to exemplary leadership? How do you teach these values? Drawing on the wisdom of ages from Plato to the Bhagavad-Gita, from Thucydides to the Abidharma, the book asserts that understanding and answering these questions holds the key to superior leadership skills. Strozzi-Heckler teaches with real-world examples based on his wide experience training decision-makers at companies like AT&T and Microsoft. The book's multifaceted approach helps readers establish a powerful Leadership Presence, a platform from which they can take ethical action with compassion and pragmatic wisdom. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Business & Economics | Leadership - Self-help | Personal Growth - Success - Business & Economics | Management - General |
| Dewey: 658.409 |
| LCCN: 2007009717 |
| Physical Information: 0.84" H x 6.38" W x 9.04" (1.02 lbs) 208 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: History is filled with accounts of great leaders, but how did they become so? Written for emergent leaders in any endeavor, this new work from renowned consultant Richard Strozzi-Heckler offers a new approach to leadership. The first book of its kind to base business and management strength on integral body awareness, the book presents key principles such as shugyo, or self-cultivation, as crucial in developing the individual responsibility, social commitment, and moral and spiritual vision required to lead with authority and efficacy. The Leadership Dojo is based on three questions: What does a leader do? What are the character values most essential to exemplary leadership? How do you teach these values? Drawing on the wisdom of ages from Plato to the Bhagavad-Gita, from Thucydides to the Abidharma, the book asserts that understanding and answering these questions holds the key to superior leadership skills. Strozzi-Heckler teaches with real-world examples based on his wide experience training decision-makers at companies like AT&T and Microsoft. The book's multifaceted approach helps readers establish a powerful Leadership Presence, a platform from which they can take ethical action with compassion and pragmatic wisdom. |